This time he went to jali But there, in his cell, there came to him the revelation for which he had, in a sense, been waiting all his life. The revelation came, as such visitations do, in a dream; Saint-Simon described it thus: "During the cruelest period of the Revolution, and during a night of my imprisonment at Luxembourg, Charlemagne appeared to me and said: 'Since the beginning of the world no family has enjoyed the honor of producing both a hero of a Philosopher will equal those which I achieved as a warrior and politician'.